United States Fifth Circuit

District court properly dismissed prisoner's habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction. Because the Louisiana Board of Parole does not act as a state court and neither sentences nor convicts, he cannot file this petition in the Middle District of Louisiana.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2004
• Published 01/29/2004

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, MAGILL, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jesus Carmona, Kinder, LA, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Ellen Hunley, Baton Rouge, LA, for Respondent-Appellee.